Cleusa Soares is a Brazilian artist born in 1950 in the city of Pelotas-RS where she lived until she was of age. Her father was a merchant and her mother was an artist, which motivated her to pursue the same interests. Her parents have always been great supporters. Still in her teens Cleusa Soares was invited by a painter from the Pelotas School of Fine Arts to take classes in a private course he taught to a group. After 5 years Cleusa found herself able to go it alone and found her own style. Her inspiration from her observation of nature and even commercial places where fruit and flowers are found, combined with her appreciation of 17th century painters, sum up her style and boldness in conservatism, in the precision of the features, shadows and perfection found in every detail of her paintings.
“For me, art can make everyone better people. It's what makes the world look better. ”
Still life as it is known, is a genre of representation that emerged from Ancient Greece and was also present in frescoes found in the ruins of Pompeii. It was later condemned by Catholic theologians during the Middle Ages. The expression competed for some time with still nature and representation of immovable objects in the eighteenth century. "Caravaggio (1571 - 1610) is one of the pioneers in the genre, exercised between 1592 and 1599 (detail of Bacchus, 1593, Fruit Basket, 1596 ).
“Sei que ser artista é um dom que recebi de Deus, não posso desperdiçá-lo! Pintar para mim é como respirar. Pintar para mim é viver!”